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England. Collection of patents. The collection is bound with 703 patents in 34 volumes on carriages in volumes some of which are in scrappy condition due to the removal of many irrevelent patents, plus about 1 165 patents in 47 volumes in good condition labelled "Bearings Axels and Wheels, which includes other subjects (e.g. includes besides horse carriages: trams and other road vehicles including cars, rai lway, mining vehicles, traction engines, bicycle tires etc. (I didn't want to remove these after I saw the damage already done to the "coaches"volumes from plucking) plus2 volumes and a pile of paten ts on springs. The binding was carried out c. 1930 and is in typical black library buckram with gilt lettering on the spines. The number of patents per volume varies considerably between 1 and 50 depen ding upon the thickness of the patents (some could be merely a leaf or two of text, some have a single sheet illustration and some multiple folding illustrations) and the thickness of the volumes whic h could vary between 1.5 ins. to 4 ins. deep. The patents were published individually in blue printed wrappers, and, as a rule, they have been bound to include the upper wrapper but not the lower one on which there would have been no text. The general format is: wrapper, text, illustration. In terms of condition they seem to be very largely unused and unread: they do tend to show signs of dust and occasional wear at the outer margins, and the very occasional well-read individual patent and one or two used volumes, overall they are in very good condition. Originally the collection derives from Manchester Public Libraries and is exceptional in that it put together this substantially complete run of patents relating to the subject. The extraction of such a collection was clearly an enormous task when one considers the vast number of patents issued covering all subjects. Possibly there has been the occasional slight error in compilation when a totally unrelated patent has been included, and in some cases a patent may have been issued not obviously related to the subject, or which pertains to more than one subject area in which case its function may have been assigned to a different ar ea of classification. However, we are confident that this collection is as thorough as one can reasonably expect, and, as such, it comprises the most remarkable body of knowledge. The inventors had to lodge a written description, and full drawings, of their new invention. The principle was that enough information must be given for anyone to copy the invention - but then he wasn't allowed to. Much of the information contained in patents is unavailable in any other form, since it may well have been deemed too abstruse or speculative to attract the attention of the editors of journals or publishe rs of books. Many ideas are described in patents long before they become well known or acceptable to be published in other forms of literature. At the same time it is safe to presume that virtually al l significant developments are contained in patents. The Patent Law Amendment Act of 1852 proposed that an Office of the Commissioners of Patents be set up and under its first superintendent, Bennet Woodcroft, it set about the task not only of publishing newly deposited specifications but also collecting together and publishing all earlier patents from 1617. Previously they had only been recorded on the Patent Rolls. An important step in publishing history. The printing of the patents in this collection thus date from 1852 to 1875 (although some of the patents may date back to an earlier period note the individual patent titles are not listed.
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GILBERT William.
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| De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure; Physiologia nova.
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London, Peter Short 1600 FIRST EDITION, folio pp (xvi) 240 + unsigned bifolium loosely placed between pp 200-201. Roman letter, printers caduceus device on title, arms woodcut on verso. First leaf with large initial and woodcut headpiece depicting the Royal arms and similar emblems, and again in different form on fol 1; ornamental initials throughout. Very extensive scientific woodcuts and diagrams illustrating text, inserted bifolium with full page scientific illustration. Early case or press mark and armorial bookplate of the great Shirburn Castle library on front pastedown, arms of the Earls of Macclesfield neatly blindstamped at head of t-p. C17 autograph of Thomas Disney at outer upper corner, two other early autographs partially inked over, extreme fore edge of first two ll a little frayed, third anciently repaired. A little marginal yellowing, the odd oily finger or dust mark, blank lower outer corner of final ll. slightly waterstained. Overall a very good copy, clean, crisp and large in contemporary top quality English vellum over bds, edges of covers with multiple blind rules, spine in six compartments, lacking ties. The first parent of the whole of the literature on electricity and magnetism, the first truly major scientific work by an Englishman and the first such published in England. Bacon mentions Gilbert with respect in the Novum Organum and Dryden accurately prophesied "Gilbert shall live till loadstones cease to draw." "But it is with Gilbert, who was physician to Queen Elizabeth I, that the modern development of electricity and magnetism really starts.His book 'On the magnet' was the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental research. Gilbert was chiefly concerned with magnetism; but as a digression he discusses in his second book the attractive effect of amber (electrum), and thus he may be regarded as the founder of electrical science. He coined the terms 'electricity', 'electric force' and 'electric attraction'. His 'versorium', a short needle balanced on a sharp point to enable it to move freely, is the first instrument designed for the study of electrical phenomena, serving both as an electroscope and electrometer. He contended that the earth was one great magnet [and the only true element]; he distinguished magnetic mass from weight;and he worked on the application of terrestrial magnetism to navigation. Gilbert's book influenced Kepler, Bacon, Boyle, Newton and, in particular Galilieo, who used his theories to support his own proof of the correctness of the findings of Copernicus in cosmology." Printing and the Mind of Man 107. "Gilbert, physician to Elisabeth I, gathered all known opinions relating to magnets and put them to the test of experiment, thereby being among the first to initiate the experimental method of science.He scorned unproved authority and the superstitions of his time. Book II is devoted exclusively to electrical phenomena, the first ever published." Dibner, Heralds of Science 54. The loosely inserted bifolium correctly placed between pp. 200-201 is often missing. STC 11883. Lowndes III 890. Horblitt '100 Famous Books in Science' 41. Norman 905.
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Hakluyt Richard
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| PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOIAGES, TRAFFIQUES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compass of these 1500 yeeres...
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London George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker 1598, 1599, 1600 3 volumes. First Edition, First Impression of the Second Hakluyt, the greatest edition of the work. Volume I is the first state of the first impression and contains the "Voyage to Cadiz" which is almost always lacking and in state A with 53 lines on p. 607. Volume 2 in the rarest state with "Hackluyt" and the title "1599"; line 7 reads "these 1600 yeres". Volume I, a remarkable copy of the book, was BOUND FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES in elaborately tooled period calf. Engraved initials throughout. Folio, Volume I in an extraordinary binding executed in the 17th century for the PRINCE OF WALES in full period calf, covers very elaborately tooled with a very largefine central heraldic device in gilt depicting the coat of arms, very large corner tools showing the royal rose and crown, all surrounded by a gilt fillet line, spine with raised bands and tooled in gilt in the compartments with heraldic roses and lions rampant. Volume II and III in later full calf bindings, the spines duplicating the gilt tools in the compartments, covers with single gilt fillet line. Housed in a foldover cloth case with lettering label. [24], 619; [14], 312, 204; [18], 868. An unusually tall, handsome and very beautifully preserved set of this scarce and important work. Volume I in a superb, special binding for the PRINCE OF WALES. Exceedingly scarce in this condition. Some normative hinge wear. HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND VERY SCARCE. A PMM WORK. Hakluyt's greatest work. Although first published in 1589, this edition, restructured and greatly expanded, is by far the superior. This work has been called "the prose epic of the modern English nation" and is an invaluable treasure of material for the history of geographical exploration and colonization and has secured Hakluyt's reputation for centuries. The "Voyage to Cadiz" was suppressed by order of Queen Elizabeth and is rarely found. From most copies of the first issue it had been excised and a reissued and slightly altered title-page was quickly supplied. Few copies have the title-page mentioning Cadiz and even fewer the chronicle of the voyage itself. This copy has both. Volume 3 is entirely devoted to the Americas, and as such is one of the earliest English books to cover the subject in any depth. Hakluyt was a foremost supporter of English exploration and colonization in the New World. Sabin calls this one of the most desirable books for a collection of Americana. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN cites "this enormous work..said to contain one million seven hundred thousand words (as) the most complete collection of voyages and discoveries, by land as well as by sea..Hakluyt.. inspired some of the great overseas explorations of his time and was one of the leading spirits in the Elizabethan maritime expansion. He met many of the great navigators---Drake, Raleigh, Gilbert, Frobisher and others---corresponded with Ortelius and Mercator and collected all the material on voyages he could find..He was a consultant to the East India Company and a patentee of the Virginia Company. He instigated numerous publications in the geographical literature of his time and suggested DeBry's publication of John White's drawings of America and Hariot's TRUE REPORT which became Part I of De Bry's great collection of voyages. His own manuscripts were used by Samuel Purchas for the HAKLUYTUS POSTHUMUS OR PURCHAS his PILGRIMES, the continuation of Hakluyt's work published in five volumes in 1625. The historical importance of the work cannot be overstated. In the words of Bancroft, this collection "redounds as much to the glory of the English nation as any book that ever was published" and as Dibdin said, "All hail to thee, [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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GILBERT, William.
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| De magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure;
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Physiologia nova, plurimus & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata. London: Peter Short, 1600 Folio (290 × 188 mm). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, metal furniture and clasps; rebacked, one catch missing, covers rubbed. Woodcut device (McKerrow 119) on title, large woodcut arms on verso, numerous text woodcuts, some full-page, large folding woodcut diagram (lightly browned), historiated woodcut capitals, head- and tailpieces. Provenance: Leiden, Royal Academy (Acad. Lugd. stamp on binding, and ink lettered at top and bottom edges, Publica auctoritate vendidi W.G. Pluym duplicate stamp on title); bookplate of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman (1866–1942), president of the New York Historical Society, member of the Grolier Club, whose important collection of astrolabes was acquired by the Smithsonian in 1959. Lightly browned at beginning and end, a good copy. First Edition of the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research. Gilbert was chiefly concerned with magnetism; but as a digression he discusses in his second book the attractive effect of amber (electrum), and thus may be regarded as the founder of electrical science. He coined the terms 'electricity,' 'electric force' and 'electric attraction' (PMM). In Book One Gilbert introduced his new basic idea … that the earth is a gigantic lodestone and thus has magnetic properties while in Book Two, his observations on the amber effect introduced the vocabulary of electrics, and is the basis for Gilbert's place in the history of electricity (DSB). Dibner Heralds of Science 54; Grolier/Horblit 41; Heilbron, pp. 169-179; Norman 905; PMM 107; STC 11883; Wellcome 2830.
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HAKLUYT, Richard.
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| The principal navigations, voiages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation,
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London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1598?99?1600 made by sea or over-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500. yeeres: devided into three severall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English . and the famous victorie atchieved at the citie of Cadiz, 1596. . By Richard Hakluyt Master of Artes, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford. Second and much expanded edition, title-page in volume I in the rare first state, dated 1598 and including the reference to "the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz", with the "Voyage to Cadiz" section (pp. 607?619) which was suppressed by Elizabeth I after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex in 1599. It is rare to find this volume in the first state with the Cadiz sheets uncancelled, neither supplied nor reinserted. As usual the set does not contain the map: Pforzheimer notes, "It is generally allowed that the map which belongs in that third volume, though only occasionally found, was not issued with all copies". 3 volumes, folio (280 × 186 mm). Skilfully bound to style in English panelled calf, red morocco labels and oval numbering pieces, spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, marbled endpapers, old red edges. Ownership inscriptions of C. Killigrew. A little dustsoiling to outer leaves (the volumes were previously bound in two); contents generally clean and fresh; although rebound, an otherwise unsophisticated copy, with the original title page and normally suppressed Cadiz section in place not supplied from other copies ? rare thus. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Hariot, Thomas (de Bry,
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| Part 1 of the Grand Voyages) Wunderbarliche, doch Warhafftige Erklarung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia, wleche newlich von den Engelandern, so im Jar 1585
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Theodore de Bry, Frankfurt 1600 Folio bound in recent full rich green leather. Blind ruling to boards and ornate gilt and leather label to spine. Internally clean with mild toning and occasional foxing. Extensively illustrated with engravings from the watercolors of John White. Fold out map of Virginia is still present and in very good condition.
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CASSERIUS, Julius Placentius.
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| First accurate beautifully illustrated monograph on the larynx ever De vocis auditusque organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatibus duobus explicata.
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Ferrara, Victorius Baldinus, 1600-1601.. 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary vellum with spine lettered in ink. Engraved frontispiece of an anatomical theatre, portrait of Blankaart by Gouwe after D. van Plas with a Latin poem by Lud. Smitds and 51 very detailed and beautifully engraved anatomical full-page plates. 30 lvs. (incl. title and 2 portaits), 192, 126 pp. and 1 leaf.. Beautiful work on the anatomy of the vocal and auditory organs written by the well-known anatomist and surgeon Julius Casserius (1561-1616) who studied at the famous University at Padus with the renowned Girolamo Fabrizzio, public lecturer in Padus from 1565. In later years Casseri achieved such fame as an anatomist that the universities of Parma and Turinnoffered him the chairs of anatomy. He, however, always refused because he was convinced he would succeed Fabrizio, the chair once helt by Vesalius. This work, here in its original edition, was his first publication and it is composed of 2 separate books that were issued together, although the second one, on the subject 'hearing' and the anatomy of the ear, is dated a year earlier than the first one, which is on the anatomy of the larynx. Casserius made some attributions of considerable importance to the science of anatomy of the sense organs, particularly the vocal and auditory organs. Most of the results of his studies, are based on zoötomic research and many of the 34 large and beautifully designed and engraved plates show zoötomic representations, among which are the vocals of a grasshopper, a dog, a rat and a frog. The research is extended to the superficial and deep muscles. For the first time a precise description of the two cdricoid-thyroid muscles is given. The description of the superior and inferior laryngeal nerves is accurate, as are his assumptions that they originate from cranial nerves and his statements of the function of the laryngeal nerves. He also deals with phonation: the nature of sound and the concepts regarding the nature of the human voice, and the importance of the larynx in general and the reasons for its shape, position and structure. The last 12 plates, in the second treatise, are dealing with the ear. In this second treatise Casserius describes the anatomy of the ear and deals with vascularization and the innervation of the middle and inner ear and the physiology of hearing. This work was the first accurate publication on the larynx ever by the 'Felix chirurgus, insignis anatomicus', as Haller calls him.The engraved plates are of superior quality and very detailed and exact. In his work, Casserius mentions the German artist Joseph Maurer who lived for a while in his house, with the specific purpose of making the anatomic drawings. Recent research indicates that the baroque and allegorical title, which depicts all kinds of anatomical figures like the skeletons of frogs, birds and dogs together with human skeletons, of which some have wings, and almost certainly the 2 portraits as well, are most likely the work of Jacopo Ligozzi. Good copy with the bookplate of Dr. T. Broeksmit and an early ownership's entry of Gerrit Backer on the second fly-leaf. Wellcome 1333; Krivatsky 2199; Morton 286; LeFanu, Notable medical books (Indianapolis, 1976), p. 57; DSB 3, p. 98-9; see also Roberts & Tomlinson, The fabric of the human body (Oxford 1992), pp. 259-263; Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science & Medicine (San Francisco 1991), 410.
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MONTE, Guido Ubaldo, Marchese del
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| Perspectivae Libri Sex.
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Large woodcut diagram on title & more than 300 woodcut diagrams in the text. 2 p.l., 310, [1] pp. Folio, cont. dark green morocco, arms of Charles de Valois on sides & his monogram in corners (Olivier 2600, fers 6 & 7), triple gilt fillet round sides, flat spine divided into seven compartments, 6 with monogram repeated, a.e.g. Pesaro: G. Concordia, 1600. First edition of this important landmark in the history of the science of perspective and a precious copy from the library of Charles of Valois (1573-1650), finely bound in contemporary green morocco with his arms. Charles was the natural son of Charles IX and was also Count, then Duke of Angouléme. He served in numerous military campaigns and was imprisoned for a number of years for having taking part in several intrigues. Released in 1616, he was appointed ambassador to Germany in 1620. His considerable collection of books was left by his elder son, Louis de Valois, Comte d'Alais, to the Minims of La Guiche in Charolais. Its library was dispersed at the time of the French Revolution. Monte (1545-1607), was Galileo's patron and friend for twenty years and was possibly the greatest single influence on the mechanics of Galileo. This work "is the culminating book in the phase of mathematical perspective with which we have been concerned...His Perspectivae libri sex provided a definitive and often original analysis of the mathematics of perspectival projection, in a far more extended way than either Commandino or Benedetti had aimed to do...Guidobaldo's book rightly came to be regarded as the main source of reference for anyone seriously interested in the underlying geometry of perspectival projection. But this is not to say that he made life at all easy for the painter who wishes to approach his text. His only substantial treatment of a representational technique occurred in his final book, in which he analysed the scenographic perspective of stage design."Kemp, The Science of Art, pp. 89-91(& see his detailed account of the contents of the book). Galileo apparently read the work in manuscript in 1594 and the illustrations of shadows on the lunar surface in his Sidereus Nuncius (1610) may be based on Book Five (see S.Y. Edgerton in Art Journal 44, Fall 1984, p. 226). A magnificent copy preserved in a morocco-backed box. 17th-century ownership inscription on title "Ex Bibliotheca Minimorum Guichiensium." Besterman, Old Art Books, p. 74. D.S.B., IX, p. 487-89. Riccardi, II, 179.
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HAKLUYT, Richard.
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| The greatest historical source for England's interests abroad in the 16th century The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or overland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres.
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London, George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, Robert Barker, 1599-1600. 3 vols. Small folio (292 x 191 mm.). Modern brown morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gold, decorative blind-stamped borders on sides, g.e. (BAGGULEY, NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME). Woodcut initials, and folding facsimile map. (24), 619, (1 blank); (16), 312, 204; (16), 868 pp. Much enlarged second edition of Hakluyt's collection of voyages, complete with the exceedingly rare voyage to Cadiz, supplied from the 1598 first issue of the first volume. This second edition is not just enlarged, but in fact it is an entirely new work, only the same methods for gathering and presenting information were used. The quantity of the text was enlarged more than three times. Hakluyt was proud to have discovered many ancient accounts, not only limiting himself to English voyages. The work was once called, by Mr. Froude "the prose epic of the modern English nation". It was Queen Elizabeth who ordered the suppression of the voyage to Cadiz, due to the disgrace of the Earl of Essex in 1599. The present first volume is here in second issue, with a slightly adapted title-page. The work is divided into three sections: voyages to the south and southeast, voyages to the north and northeast, and voyages to the west. The second volume contains reports on the Mediterranean trade, voyages and travels to that area and to the Cape of Good Hope, including the already mentioned account by Federici. The eastern Meditarrenean area was of great interest. It was not only interesting because of its trade opportunities and as an emporium for eastern goods, but it was a gateway to Persia, India, China and the islands of the East Indies. One of the travel accounts included is by Cesare Federici, who travelled with the merchant John Newbery through the Middle East and in the Persian Gulf. Federici's account includes thorough descriptions from a merchant's point of view of cities and islands of the East Indies. Except for Linschoten's Itinerario, the most current information on the East was published in this work. Besides serving as a merchant's guidebook, it also informed on the social and religious customs of various peoples. On the northeast passage Hakluyt wrote: "But now it is high time for us to weigh our ancre, to hoist up our sailes, to get clear of these boistrous, frosty and misty seas, and with all speed direct our course for the milde, lightsome, temperate, and warme Atlantic Ocean.". Even after having given this plea for travels to the south, he still devoted 590 pages to voyages to the north and east, describing travels to Britain, Iceland, Gotland, Orkney, Denmark, Norway, etc. Examples of travel accounts are: "The long and wonderfull voyage of Frier John de Plano Carpini, Anno 1246", "The voyage of sir Hugh Willoughby knight, werein he unfortuantely perished at Arzina Reca in Lapland, Anno 1553", "The voyage of Stephen Burrough toward the River of Ob, intending the discovery of the Norheast passage, Anno 1556", and "A voyage to Sibier and the River of Ob, by land, declared in a letter written to Gerardus Mercator". Also descriptions of ceremonies and festivities are included, such as "The marriage of the daughter of Harald unto Ieruslaus duke of Russia in his owne Countrey, Anno 1067". Hakluyt was also very interested in the New World. The voyages to the west were in comparison to the first volume expanded from 279000 words to 812000. Hakluyt brought his readers up to date on recent events as Raleigh's voyage to Guiana, and he also included non-English voyages, such as the expeditions of Verrazano, Ribaut, Laudonnière, and the Zeno brothers, as well as a large number of documents describing the West Indies from Spanish sources. The third volume is entirely devoted to America, and contains - as the other two volumes - many curious, rare and early voyages and histories of interesting discoveries to many parts in America: Virginia, the coast and inland of Florida, New Mexico, California, Nicaragua and Panama, Peru, Jamaica, and Cuba,
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CASSERIUS, JULIUS PLACENTIUS.
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| DE VOCIS AUDITUSQUE ORGANIS HISTORIA ANATOMICA SINGULARI FIDE METHODO AC INDUSTRIA CONCINNATA TRACTATIBUS DUOBUS EXPLICATA. FERRARA, VICTORIUS BALDINUS, 1600-1601.
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2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary vellum with spine lettered in ink. Engraved frontispiece of an anatomical theatre, portrait of Blankaart by Gouwe after D. van Plas with a Latin poem by Lud. Smitds and 51 very detailed and beautifully engraved anatomical full-page plates. 30 lvs. (incl. title and 2 portaits), 192, 126 pp. and 1 leaf. Beautiful work on the anatomy of the vocal and auditory organs written by the well-known anatomist and surgeon Julius Casserius (1561-1616) who studied at the famous University at Padus with the renowned Girolamo Fabrizzio, public lecturer in Padus from 1565. In later years Casseri achieved such fame as an anatomist that the universities of Parma and Turinnoffered him the chairs of anatomy. He, however, always refused because he was convinced he would succeed Fabrizio, the chair once helt by Vesalius. This work, here in its original edition, was his first publication and it is composed of 2 separate books that were issued together, although the second one, on the subject 'hearing' and the anatomy of the ear, is dated a year earlier than the first one, which is on the anatomy of the larynx. Casserius made some attributions of considerable importance to the science of anatomy of the sense organs, particularly the vocal and auditory organs. Most of the results of his studies, are based on zooetomic research and many of the 34 large and beautifully designed and engraved plates show zooetomic representations, among which are the vocals of a grasshopper, a dog, a rat and a frog. The research is extended to the superficial and deep muscles. For the first time a precise description of the two cdricoid-thyroid muscles is given. The description of the superior and inferior laryngeal nerves is accurate, as are his assumptions that they originate from cranial nerves and his statements of the function of the laryngeal nerves. He also deals with phonation: the nature of sound and the concepts regarding the nature of the human voice, and the importance of the larynx in general and the reasons for its shape, position and structure. The last 12 plates, in the second treatise, are dealing with the ear. In this second treatise Casserius describes the anatomy of the ear and deals with vascularization and the innervation of the middle and inner ear and the physiology of hearing. This work was the first accurate publication on the larynx ever by the 'Felix chirurgus, insignis anatomicus', as Haller calls him.The engraved plates are of superior quality and very detailed and exact. In his work, Casserius mentions the German artist Joseph Maurer who lived for a while in his house, with the specific purpose of making the anatomic drawings. Recent research indicates that the baroque and allegorical title, which depicts all kinds of anatomical figures like the skeletons of frogs, birds and dogs together with human skeletons, of which some have wings, and almost certainly the 2 portraits as well, are most likely the work of Jacopo Ligozzi. Good copy with the bookplate of Dr. T. Broeksmit and an early ownership's entry of Gerrit Backer on the second fly-leaf. Wellcome 1333; Krivatsky 2199; Morton 286; LeFanu, Notable medical books (Indianapolis, 1976), p. 57; DSB 3, p. 98-9; see also Roberts & Tomlinson, The fabric of the human body (Oxford 1992), pp. 259-263; Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science & Medicine (San Francisco 1991), 410.
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| Collection of 56 royal decrees signed by Philip III (some with a stamp) to the Audiencia of Guatemala. Manuscripts on paper, various places (Valladolid, Madrid, San Lorenzo, etc.) from
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, , @18 May 1600 to 15 June 1628. - Folio, 100 leaves carefully removed from a bound volume and now stored in mylar sleeves in a blue cloth slipcase. In very good condition. The documents represent a remarkable, unpublished source for the history of the High Court of Guatemala during the first quarter of the seventeenth century, covering such subjects as the conquest and pacification of Indians in Honduras, granting of encomiendas, diversion of royal monies, establishment of missions and convents and disciplining of politically active priests. They illustrate local customs and call attention to previous decrees that the Court had ignored. The documents are from the presidencies of Dr. Alonso Criado de Castilla (1598-1611), D. Antonio PŽrez Ayala Castilla y Rojas (1611-26) and Dr. Diego de Acu–a (1626-33). More detailed description and calendar available upon request. @ [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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CASSERIUS, Julius Placentius.
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| First accurate beautifully illustrated monograph on the larynx ever De vocis auditusque organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatibus duobus explicata.
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Ferrara, Victorius Baldinus, 1600-1601. - 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. Contemporary vellum with spine lettered in ink. Engraved frontispiece of an anatomical theatre, portrait of Blankaart by Gouwe after D. van Plas with a Latin poem by Lud. Smitds and 51 very detailed and beautifully engraved anatomical full-page plates. 30 lvs. (incl. title and 2 portaits), 192, 126 pp. and 1 leaf. Beautiful work on the anatomy of the vocal and auditory organs written by the well-known anatomist and surgeon Julius Casserius (1561-1616) who studied at the famous University at Padus with the renowned Girolamo Fabrizzio, public lecturer in Padus from 1565. In later years Casseri achieved such fame as an anatomist that the universities of Parma and Turinnoffered him the chairs of anatomy. He, however, always refused because he was convinced he would succeed Fabrizio, the chair once helt by Vesalius. This work, here in its original edition, was his first publication and it is composed of 2 separate books that were issued together, although the second one, on the subject 'hearing' and the anatomy of the ear, is dated a year earlier than the first one, which is on the anatomy of the larynx. Casserius made some attributions of considerable importance to the science of anatomy of the sense organs, particularly the vocal and auditory organs. Most of the results of his studies, are based on zoötomic research and many of the 34 large and beautifully designed and engraved plates show zoötomic representations, among which are the vocals of a grasshopper, a dog, a rat and a frog. The research is extended to the superficial and deep muscles. For the first time a precise description of the two cdricoid-thyroid muscles is given. The description of the superior and inferior laryngeal nerves is accurate, as are his assumptions that they originate from cranial nerves and his statements of the function of the laryngeal nerves. He also deals with phonation: the nature of sound and the concepts regarding the nature of the human voice, and the importance of the larynx in general and the reasons for its shape, position and structure. The last 12 plates, in the second treatise, are dealing with the ear. In this second treatise Casserius describes the anatomy of the ear and deals with vascularization and the innervation of the middle and inner ear and the physiology of hearing. This work was the first accurate publication on the larynx ever by the 'Felix chirurgus, insignis anatomicus', as Haller calls him.The engraved plates are of superior quality and very detailed and exact. In his work, Casserius mentions the German artist Joseph Maurer who lived for a while in his house, with the specific purpose of making the anatomic drawings. Recent research indicates that the baroque and allegorical title, which depicts all kinds of anatomical figures like the skeletons of frogs, birds and dogs together with human skeletons, of which some have wings, and almost certainly the 2 portraits as well, are most likely the work of Jacopo Ligozzi. Good copy with the bookplate of Dr. T. Broeksmit and an early ownership's entry of Gerrit Backer on the second fly-leaf. Wellcome 1333; Krivatsky 2199; Morton 286; LeFanu, Notable medical books (Indianapolis, 1976), p. 57; DSB 3, p. 98-9; see also Roberts & Tomlinson, The fabric of the human body (Oxford 1992), pp. 259-263; Hook & Norman, The Norman Library of Science & Medicine (San Francisco 1991), 410.
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| Les Oeuvres du Comte de Permission.
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Paris 1600-1604 78 pièces reliées en 2 vol. in-12, vélin à recouvrement du XIXe siècle. « Le comte de Permission était une espèce de fou qui, pour vivre, avait imaginé de faire imprimer ses rêveries amphigouriques, qu'il distribuait lui-même dans les rues et dans les maisons, à ceux qui voulaient bien lui faire quelques générosités ». « C'est Charles Nodier, qui, le premier a classé Bluet d'Arbères dans le Charenton du Parnasse. Ce poète, moitié fou, moitié sot, se qualifiait lui-même de comte de permission et de chevalier des ligues des treize cantons suisses. Né en 1566, au hameau d'Arbères dans le pays de Gex, il avait commencé par être berger. Certaines visions apocalyptiques le firent d'abord passer pour inspirer aux yeux des pasteurs de son village ; quelques gentillâtres savoyards s'en servirent ensuite comme d'un bouffon, et les grandes dames prirent plaisir à l'accabler d'avances peu compromettante pour elles. Jusqu'où allèrent les choses ? on n'en sait rien ; mais comme, à cette époque, un berger n'était pas plus un homme qu'un valet, on peut croire que de nombreuses libertés lui furent permises. Le bruit de ses succès auprès des Savoyardes le précéda quand il vint à Paris, et assura son succès dans cette ville ; les grands seigneurs se le disputèrent, comme l'avaient fait ses compatriotes, et ce sot, qui avoue lui-même qu'il ne savait ni lire li écrire, fit fortune ». Ensemble de la plus grande rareté constitué de l'Intitulation et de 77 livrets (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22 (incomplet), 23, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33 (incomplet), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77 (incomplet), 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100). Ce recueil est illustré de nombreuses figures et blasons gravés sur bois, dont un certain nombre sont des bois originaux du milieu du XVIe siècle ; parmi ces illustrations figurent les portraits des personnages charitables qui sont venus en aide à l'auteur. Il n'existe pas d'exemplaire complet de ce recueil qui compte une première série de cent treize livrets plus une deuxième série numérotée 141 à 173. Les numéros 86 à 90 et les numéros 114 à 140 demeurent inconnus. La BNF possède une collection incomplète de la première série et les numéros 141-173. Réunion exceptionnelle provenant de la bibliothèque Pierre Louys. Brunet I, 979 ; Graesse I, 443 ; Nodier, Bibliographie des fous ; Delepierre, Histoire littéraire des fous, p.107 à 162 ; Blavier p. 62.
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| Zee, Land, en Stroom Lust Bestaande in . Verscheyde Gezigten Binnen en Buytenlandsche Vaartuygen en Scheepen zoo als men de zelve Heedendaags Bouwt. naar 't Leeven Geteekent van Verscheyde Liefhebbers, en in't Kooper Gebragt door A. van der Laan - Delices de Mer, Terre et de Rivieres . - Delight Full Sea, Land, and River Prospects .Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, [after 1726]. Oblong folio (26 x 39.5 cm). Full-page engraved title-page, 20 engraved plates depicting different types of ships.BOUND WITH: AKEN, Jan van. [Four engraved views of the Rhine].[Amsterdam], Nicolaas Visscher, [before 1726]. 4 engraved plates with landscapes. Contemporary boards.
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- Ad 1: Cat. Scheepsmodellen. 1600-1900 (NHSM; 1943), p. 167; De Groot & Vorstman, Dutch Sailing Ships, p. 17, 23; Maggs, Bibl. Nautica II, no. 631; not in Bruzelius, Cat. NHSM, Polak; Thieme & Becker XXII, pp. 159-160 (V.d. Laan); ad 2: Nagler, Allg. Künsterlexikon I, p. 32; Wurzbach I, p. 8 (Van Aken); Wurzbach II, pp. 549-551 (Saftleven). Ad 1: Rare work with twenty beautifully engraved plates of sailing ships. The plates depict different types of ships (inland and seagoing vessels, merchant, VOC, whaling and warships), mostly situated close to harbours such as Harlingen, Enkhuizen and Rotterdam. Additionally, the illustrations show several sailing manoeuvres such as getting under sail, tacking, jibing, preparing for anchoring, etc. The two final plates show a sea battle between two Maltese frigates and three Algerian privateers, and a French naval ship riding at its anchors in a storm. The illustrations measure c. 19.5 x 33 cm, excluding the engraved text in French, Dutch and English captions underneath (plate edges c. 21.5 x 34 cm). At the lower right corner the name "Petrus Schenk Exc." has been engraved. The plates are unnumbered. Adolf, not Adriaan, van der Laan (c. 1690- after 1740) is known for a "sichere und saubere Grabstichelführung und lebendiger Ausdruck" (Thieme & Becker), which is also the hallmark of the present nautical plates. They are a combination of meticulous eye for detail and expert knowledge of ships and sailing, and have been drawn with flair.The present series contains the following twenty illustrations (because the French and English text is curious to say the least, we list the text of the Dutch captions): 1. Een Gaffel Schuyt, en de Have van Harlingen; 2. Een Smack, en 't Gezicht van Enckhuyse; 3. Een Koffe Schip, Nevens Broeck by Enckhuysen; 4. Een Vriesche Smack, Nevens Ropsijl van 't Westen; 5. Een Turf Schip, en de Sandhoek van Amsterdam; 6. Een Zeeuws Beurtman, en't Geitsteck by Harlingen; 7. Een Smal Schip; 8. Een Hollands Hekboot, in zyn wenden Leggende; 9. Een Hollands Fregat ter Coopvaardy, in zyn Wenden; 10. Twee Hollandse Oost-indische Scheepen, en een Hollands Fregattje (sic); 11. Een Groenlands Vaarder, en de Have van Rotterdam; 12. Een Hollans (sic) Oorlogh Schip; 13. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 2.e Rang, voerende de Vice Admiraals Vlag, maakt zig gereed om ten anker te komen; 14. Een Oorlogh Schip; 15. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 4.e Rang, op zyn Engels gebouwt, ten Anker komende; 16. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip vande 4.e Rang op zyn Engels gebouwt zyn Fok op Gyende (sic); 17. Een Hollands Oorlog Schip van de 5.e Rang, een drie maste Hoeker, en een Jagt; 18. Een Holands Oorlog Schip van de 5.e Rang, onder Zeyl gaande en Eenige Visschers Schuijten; 19. Een zee gevegt tusschen 2 Maltheser Oorlog Scheepen, en 3 Algierse Kapers; 20. Een Frans Oorlog Schip van de 4.e Rang, ryende voor syn Ankers in een Storm.Van der Laan has drawn several series with illustrations of ships, but the present one, Zee, Land en Stroom Lust should contain an engraved title and twenty plates (see Wurzbach II, p. 1) and not seventeen plates as given by Thieme & Becker (XXII, pp. 159-160). The series has been executed in a larger format of c. 21 x 34 cm (including captions) and smaller format (c. 14 x 21.5 cm). Illustration 20 (p. 17) in De Groot & Vorstman, a Zeeland passage boat (no. 6 in our copy), measures 21.2 x 34 cm, whereas illustration 31 (p. 23), a fourth rate Dutch man of war (no. 15 in our copy), measures 13.8 x 21.6 cm. The plates in our series have been executed in the larger format. The address on the title-page, "te bekoomen by Petrus Schenk, tot Amsterdam voor aan in de Kalver-straat, in N. Visschers Atlas," provides an indication for the date of the present series. Visscher's widow Elisabeth Verseyl, who had carried on her husband's business after his death, died in 1726, and the Visscher estate was sold off, among others to Petrus Schenk II (before 1698-1775). The engraved title in Dut
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| Les Oeuvres du Comte de Permission.
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Paris 1600-1604 78 pièces reliées en 2 vol. in-12, vélin à recouvrement du XIXe siècle. « Le comte de Permission était une espèce de fou qui, pour vivre, avait imaginé de faire imprimer ses rêveries amphigouriques, qu'il distribuait lui-même dans les rues et dans les maisons, à ceux qui voulaient bien lui faire quelques générosités ». « C'est Charles Nodier, qui, le premier a classé Bluet d'Arbères dans le Charenton du Parnasse. Ce poète, moitié fou, moitié sot, se qualifiait lui-même de comte de permission et de chevalier des ligues des treize cantons suisses. Né en 1566, au hameau d'Arbères dans le pays de Gex, il avait commencé par être berger. Certaines visions apocalyptiques le firent d'abord passer pour inspirer aux yeux des pasteurs de son village ; quelques gentillâtres savoyards s'en servirent ensuite comme d'un bouffon, et les grandes dames prirent plaisir à l'accabler d'avances peu compromettante pour elles. Jusqu'où allèrent les choses ? on n'en sait rien ; mais comme, à cette époque, un berger n'était pas plus un homme qu'un valet, on peut croire que de nombreuses libertés lui furent permises. Le bruit de ses succès auprès des Savoyardes le précéda quand il vint à Paris, et assura son succès dans cette ville ; les grands seigneurs se le disputèrent, comme l'avaient fait ses compatriotes, et ce sot, qui avoue lui-même qu'il ne savait ni lire li écrire, fit fortune ». Ensemble de la plus grande rareté constitué de l'Intitulation et de 77 livrets (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22 (incomplet), 23, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33 (incomplet), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77 (incomplet), 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100). Ce recueil est illustré de nombreuses figures et blasons gravés sur bois, dont un certain nombre sont des bois originaux du milieu du XVIe siècle ; parmi ces illustrations figurent les portraits des personnages charitables qui sont venus en aide à l'auteur. Il n'existe pas d'exemplaire complet de ce recueil qui compte une première série de cent treize livrets plus une deuxième série numérotée 141 à 173. Les numéros 86 à 90 et les numéros 114 à 140 demeurent inconnus. La BNF possède une collection incomplète de la première série et les numéros 141-173. Réunion exceptionnelle provenant de la bibliothèque Pierre Louys. Brunet I, 979 ; Graesse I, 443 ; Nodier, Bibliographie des fous ; Delepierre, Histoire littéraire des fous, p.107 à 162 ; Blavier p. 62.
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| @Collection of 56 royal decrees signed by Philip III (some with a stamp) to the Audiencia of Guatemala. Manuscripts on paper, various places (Valladolid, Madrid, San Lorenzo, etc.) from
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, , @18 May 1600 to 15 June 1628. Folio, 100 leaves carefully removed from a bound volume and now stored in mylar sleeves in a blue cloth slipcase. In very good condition. The documents represent a remarkable, unpublished source for the history of the High Court of Guatemala during the first quarter of the seventeenth century, covering such subjects as the conquest and pacification of Indians in Honduras, granting of encomiendas, diversion of royal monies, establishment of missions and convents and disciplining of politically active priests. They illustrate local customs and call attention to previous decrees that the Court had ignored. The documents are from the presidencies of Dr. Alonso Criado de Castilla (1598-1611), D. Antonio Pérez Ayala Castilla y Rojas (1611-26) and Dr. Diego de Acuña (1626-33). More detailed description and calendar available upon request. @
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BLUET D'ARBERES (Bernard de);
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| Les Oeuvres du Comte de Permission.
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1600-1604 78 pièces reliées en 2 vol. in-12, vélin à recouvrement du XIXe siècle. 23000 ' Le comte de Permission était une espèce de fou qui, pour vivre, avait imaginé de faire imprimer ses rêveries amphigouriques, qu'il distribuait lui-même dans les rues et dans les maisons, à ceux qui voulaient bien lui faire quelques générosités É. ' C'est Charles Nodier, qui, le premier a classé Bluet d'Arbères dans le Charenton du Parnasse. Ce poète, moitié fou, moitié sot, se qualifiait lui-même de comte de permission et de chevalier des ligues des treize cantons suisses. Né en 1566, au hameau d'Arbères dans le pays de Gex, il avait commencé par être berger. Certaines visions apocalyptiques le firent d'abord passer pour inspirer aux yeux des pasteurs de son village ; quelques gentillâtres savoyards s'en servirent ensuite comme d'un bouffon, et les grandes dames prirent plaisir à l'accabler d'avances peu compromettante pour elles. Jusqu'où allèrent les choses ? on n'en sait rien ; mais comme, à cette époque, un berger n'était pas plus un homme qu'un valet, on peut croire que de nombreuses libertés lui furent permises. Le bruit de ses succès auprès des Savoyardes le précéda quand il vint à Paris, et assura son succès dans cette ville ; les grands seigneurs se le disputèrent, comme l'avaient fait ses compatriotes, et ce sot, qui avoue lui-même qu'il ne savait ni lire li écrire, fit fortune É. Ensemble de la plus grande rareté constitué de l'Intitulation et de 77 livrets (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22 (incomplet), 23, 24, 26, 30, 32, 33 (incomplet), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77 (incomplet), 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100). Ce recueil est illustré de nombreuses figures et blasons gravés sur bois, dont un certain nombre sont des bois originaux du milieu du XVIe siècle ; parmi ces illustrations figurent les portraits des personnages charitables qui sont venus en aide à l'auteur. Il n'existe pas d'exemplaire complet de ce recueil qui compte une première série de cent treize livrets plus une deuxième série numérotée 141 à 173. Les numéros 86 à 90 et les numéros 114 à 140 demeurent inconnus. La BNF possède une collection incomplète de la première série et les numéros 141-173. Réunion exceptionnelle provenant de la bibliothèque Pierre Louys. Brunet I, 979 ; Graesse I, 443 ; Nodier, Bibliographie des fous ; Delepierre, Histoire littéraire des fous, p.107 à 162 ; Blavier p. 62.
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| De vocis auditusque organis historia anatomica.
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Ferrara, V.Baldino, 1600-01, in- folio, pp. (58), 191, 126, (2), leg. coeva p.perg., tit. in oro sutassello in pelle al dorso. Il volume ha 3 antiporta fig. tra i più belli della tipografia cinquecentesca: un titolo a stampa entro elaboratissima bordura con scheletri di putti alati; un ritratto del dedicatario Ranuccio Farnese, duca di Parma, ed uno dell'autore, nell'atto di sezionare una mano, entro due splendide bordure con figure allegoriche e stemmi gentilizi. L'illustrazione comprende inoltre 34 finissime tavole anatomiche n.t., 22 riguardanti gli organi vocali e 12 l'apparato auditivo. Prima edizione di questo capolavoro dell'illustrazione scientifica, il più bel libro di otorinolaringoiatria mai prodotto. Le tavole, stimate le più eleganti nella storia dell'anatomia comparata, sono state attribuite al pittore tedesco Joseph Maurer, le bordure a Jacopo Ligozzi. Il piacentino Casserio (1552-1616) fu professore di chirurgia all'università di Padova, ed iniziò lo studio dgli organi vocali e auditivi negli animali domestici. Bell'esemplare marginoso di questo raro libro; lievi aloni d'umido, piccolo restauro ad un angolo dei primi 5 ff. Garrison Morton 286. Hofer, Baroque, 62. Choulant 223-24.
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MONTE, Guidobaldo del.
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| Perspectivae Libri Sex.
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| Pesaro Hieronymus Concordia 1600 Folio [34 x 245 cm] (2) ff., 310 pp., (1) f. Bound in contemporary cartonnato, untrimmed. Tiny wormtrack through title and following leaves; another smaller track affecting partial letter on title and same on a few subsequent leaves; minor staining on a handful of leaves, but generally a fresh and broad-margined copy, retaining original size, excellent. Scarce first, sole edition and unusually genuine copy of “one of the most important contributions to both theoretical and applied perspective” (Breman apud Wiebenson), by the great mathematical physicist and Galileo patron, Guidobaldo del Monte. The book’s outstanding achievement was to establish for the first time the concept of the vanishing point, which has remained the cornerstone of all theories of perspective to the present day. “Guidobaldo’s book rightly came to be regarded as the main source of reference for anyone seriously interested in the underlying geometry of perspectival projection.” -- Kemp, p. 91. The work had wide repercussions from the Florentine painter Cigoli to Galileo, who is known to have seen the work in manuscript as early as 1594 and whose treatment of the moon’s shadows in the illustrations to the Sidereus Nuncius have been shown to be influenced by Monte: “Book V on how cones and irregular geometric solids cast shadows and his treatment of the moon and on that and inclined planes would certainly have been read by Galileo.” -- Edgerton, p. 226. The sixth book on scenography “ranks in the literature of theater perspective along with Serlio, Sabbatini... and Carini-Motta.” -- Breman. * Berlin 4703; Vagneti E ll b 41; Wiebenson III B 12; M. Kemp, The Science of Art, pp. 89ff.; P.L.Rose, The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, pp.222-36; Drake, Galileo at Work, 35, 66-7; Edgerton, Art Journal XLIV (l985) 225-48, with further references in n. 9.
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| De Magnete, Magneticis Que Corporibus, Et De Magno magnete tellure: Physiologia nova, plurimis et argumentis & experimentis demonstrata.
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Peter Short, London: 1600. Folio. *8, A-V6. [16],240pp. Modern antique-style full calf,with center-piece and rules in blind, spine banded title gilt; 8 ink corections, as usual, thought to be in GilbertÕs own hand; occ. foxing, a very nice copy; a leaf of contemporary notes is inserted between pages 126 & 127 in Latin. Title with woodcut printer"s device on recto and Gilbert"s woodcut arms on verso. 88 woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text (4 full-page), one folding. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. First Edition. Gilbert"s (1544-1603) De Magnete is "a remarkable work in the history of scientific discovery. It cost the author 18 years of investigation and experiment. Large marginal asterisks mark what he considered great discoveries, and small asterisks minor ones. There are 21 of the former and 178 of the latter. Gilbert shows that a freely suspended magnet is controlled by the earth and not, as supposed, by extra-terrestrial influences. His magnetic theory enabled him to explain the behavior of the compass-needle, the dip-needle, the magnetic condition of vertical masses of iron, and the magnetic properties of heated iron bars when allowed to cool while lying in the magnetic meridian. Gilbert is chary of prose and wrathful in denunciation; he was a staunch Coperican, and warm friend of Kepler and Galileo." [Wheeler Gift.] ".it is with Gilbert, who was physician to Queen Elizabeth I, that the modern development of electricity and magnetism really starts. His book "On the Magnet" was the first major English scientific treatise based on experimental methods of research. He coined the terms "electricity," "electric force," and "electric attraction". He contended that the earth was one great magnet; he distinguished magnetic mass from weight; and he worked on the application of terrestrial magnetism to navigation." [PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN.] STC 11883. ESTC s121112. PMM 107. Horblit 41. Sparrow 85. Dibner 54.Houzeau & Lancaster 2870. Norman 905. Osler 675. Wheeler Gift 72. Durling/NLM 2099. ESTC s121112.Neville I,522. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
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Frankfurt, durch Johann, 1600. Folio. pp [xvi] 556. Black letter. Title printed in red and black with hand-coloured woodcut of a hawk, 219 woodcuts of varying sizes (many almost full-page) in dramatic contemp hand-colouring, decorated initials. Age-yellowing, t-p sl. soiled and backed, early noble library stamps on recto and verso; some restored marginal tears, lightly foxed, ‘Bibliotheca Tiliana' and an earlier ecclesiastical bookplate on pastedown. A very good, well margined copy in mottled calf, c1700, slightly worn, spine in 8 compartments, 6 gilt, 2 with labels, marbled endpapers, a.e. r. A handsome copy, its numerous woodcuts all splendidly hand-coloured, of this treatise on birds by one of the most important naturalists of the C16th, first published in German in Zurich in 1557. The present edition is corrected and enlarged (14 and 566 pages against the 10 and 522 pages of the first edition). Originally published in 1555 as volume three of Gesner's famous ‘Historiae Animalium' (Zurich 1551-1587), whose other volumes deal with, respectively, viviparous, oviparous, fishes and snakes, this work gave a great impulse to the study of ornithology. ‘Gesner brought an amount of erudition, hitherto unequalled, to bear upon his subject; and [...] his judgment must in most respects be deemed excellent. [...] Like nearly all his predecessors since Aelian, he adopted an alphabetical arrangement, though this was not too pedantically preserved, and did not hinder him from placing together the kinds of birds which he supposed [...] to have the most resemblance to that one whose name, being best known, was chosen for the headpiece [...] of his particular theme, thus recognising to some extent the principle of classification. ' [Enc. Brit.]. The book opens with a majestic full-page woodcut of an eagle. Other easily recognisable birds (thanks also to the skilful hand-colouring) are magpies, blackbirds, sparrows, ducks, pheasants, bats, cuckoos, roosters, hens, turkeys, hawks, owls, pelicans, thrushes,...
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| An important early Americanum concerning the discovery by Columbus De locis S. Scripturae Hebraicis Angeli Caninii commentarius et Antonii Nebrissensis Quinquagena. Nunc primum simul emendatius edita. Accessit Gasparis Varrerii Lusitani De Ophira Regione in Sacris litteris Disputatio.
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Louvain, Gerardus Rivius, 1600. . 8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with title written in ink on spine, remnants of ties. With woodcut 'IHS' vignette on title. (8), 197, (9), (3), (14), 299-250, (6) pp. . Extremely rare edition of these works with the final section (72 pp.) containing an important text on early America: the treatise De Ophira Regione by the Portoguese geographer Gaspar Barreiros (Caspar Varrerius; d. 1574) concerning the New World and it's discovery by Christopher Columbus. This text was published for the first time in the Chorographia by Barreiros, in Coimbra 1561 and was reprinted several times during the 16th and 17th centuries in collections of texts such as the present collection, or in the Novus Orbis, id est Navigationes prima in Americam (Rotterdam 1616), or after the edition of the History of Gelre by Pontanus (Harderwijk 1637). It seems unlikely that this work was published separately, and so this 1600 edition may well be the second edition.In this text the author disproves the then reigning opinion that the legendary region of Ophir of King Solomon had to be located in America and identical with Peru. Ophir, however, is probably located at the east coast of Arabia, from where Solomon's ships brought home tons of gold. Varrerius himself is of the opinion, following St. Jerome and Josephus, that Ophir lies in India. "His reasoning is ingenious and learned" (Sabin).The first two works - De locis S. Scripturae Hebraicis by the Italian philologist Angelo Canini (1521-1557); and the Quinquagena by the Spanish classical scholar Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) reflect on the names of places, (also of people and animals, etc.) of Hebrew origin in the New Testament.The collection was simultaneously printed in Antwerp, by the Heirs of Joh. Bellerus, and in Louvain, the Louvain printing seems to be of the utmost rarity.Contents:p. (1): Title (verso blank)pp. (3-7): Dedicatory letter by Gaspar Bellerus to Balthasar Suniga.p. (8): Contents of Canini's work.pp. 1-75: Angelo Caninio, Loci aliquot Novi Testamenti cum Hebraeorum originibus with its 13 chapters: 'De Jesu & Iova; De Hosanna, De Amen, De Rabba, De Mamona, etc.pp. 75-76: 'Precatio Dominica' and 'Salutatio angelica Syriace'.pp. 77-197: Antoniode Nebrija, Quinquagena, seu Quinquaginta S. Scripturae locorum explanatio; ordine alphabetico .pp. (1-3): Index of the chapters of the previous work.pp. (1-6): Letter by Caspar Varrerius to King Joannes of Portugal datedEbora, 27 November 1550.pp. (7-11): Letter by Caspar Varrerius to Sebastian Summa, dated Ebora, 26 April 1560.pp. (12-14): Argumenta copmmentarii de Ophyra regione Gasparis Varrerii.pp.199-250: Caspar Varrerium, Commentarius de Orphyra regione, lib. III Reg. Cap. IX. et X. et II. Paralip. IX. commemorata; unde Salomoni Iudaeorum Regi inclyto, ingens auri, argenti, gemmarum, eboris, aliarumque rerum copia apportabatur. pp. (1-3): Abraham Ortelius, De Ophira regione (in Thesaro Geographico).p. (4): Idem , 'De Paradiso'.p. (5): Errata.p. (6): 'Nihil obstat' signed by Guiliel. Fabiricius Noviomagus. Good copy.- (Some sl. browning in a few quires). Belg. Typ . 548; Index Aureliensis 131.043; European Americana 600/28; Leclerc 414; Sabin 3596 (Antwerp ed.); Adams C507 (Antwerp ed.); Machiels C85 (Antwerp ed.); not in NUC .
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CANINI, ANGELO; ANTONIO DE NEBRIJA
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| DE LOCIS S. SCRIPTURAE HEBRAICIS ANGELI CANINII COMMENTARIUS ET ANTONII NEBRISSENSIS QUINQUAGENA. NUNC PRIMUM SIMUL EMENDATIUS EDITA. ACCESSIT GASPARIS VARRERII LUSITANI DE OPHIRA REGIONE IN SACRIS LITTERIS DISPUTATIO. LOUVAIN, GERARDUS RIVIUS, 1600.
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8vo. Contemporary limp vellum with title written in ink on spine, remnants of ties. With woodcut 'IHS' vignette on title. (8), 197, (9), (3), (14), 299-250, (6) pp. Extremely rare edition of these works with the final section (72 pp.) containing an important text on early America: the treatise De Ophira Regione by the Portoguese geographer Gaspar Barreiros (Caspar Varrerius; d. 1574) concerning the New World and it's discovery by Christopher Columbus. This text was published for the first time in the Chorographia by Barreiros, in Coimbra 1561 and was reprinted several times during the 16th and 17th centuries in collections of texts such as the present collection, or in the Novus Orbis, id est Navigationes prima in Americam (Rotterdam 1616), or after the edition of the History of Gelre by Pontanus (Harderwijk 1637). It seems unlikely that this work was published separately, and so this 1600 edition may well be the second edition.In this text the author disproves the then reigning opinion that the legendary region of Ophir of King Solomon had to be located in America and identical with Peru. Ophir, however, is probably located at the east coast of Arabia, from where Solomon's ships brought home tons of gold. Varrerius himself is of the opinion, following St. Jerome and Josephus, that Ophir lies in India. "His reasoning is ingenious and learned" (Sabin).The first two works - De locis S. Scripturae Hebraicis by the Italian philologist Angelo Canini (1521-1557); and the Quinquagena by the Spanish classical scholar Antonio de Nebrija (1444-1522) reflect on the names of places, (also of people and animals, etc.) of Hebrew origin in the New Testament.The collection was simultaneously printed in Antwerp, by the Heirs of Joh. Bellerus, and in Louvain, the Louvain printing seems to be of the utmost rarity.Contents:p. (1): Title (verso blank)pp. (3-7): Dedicatory letter by Gaspar Bellerus to Balthasar Suniga.p. (8): Contents of Canini's work.pp. 1-75: Angelo Caninio, Loci aliquot Novi Testamenti cum Hebraeorum originibus with its 13 chapters: 'De Jesu & Iova; De Hosanna, De Amen, De Rabba, De Mamona, etc.pp. 75-76: 'Precatio Dominica' and 'Salutatio angelica Syriace'.pp. 77-197: Antoniode Nebrija, Quinquagena, seu Quinquaginta S. Scripturae locorum explanatio; ordine alphabetico.pp. (1-3): Index of the chapters of the previous work.pp. (1-6): Letter by Caspar Varrerius to King Joannes of Portugal datedEbora, 27 November 1550.pp. (7-11): Letter by Caspar Varrerius to Sebastian Summa, dated Ebora, 26 April 1560.pp. (12-14): Argumenta copmmentarii de Ophyra regione Gasparis Varrerii.pp.199-250: Caspar Varrerium, Commentarius de Orphyra regione, lib. III Reg. Cap. IX. et X. et II. Paralip. IX. commemorata; unde Salomoni Iudaeorum Regi inclyto, ingens auri, argenti, gemmarum, eboris, aliarumque rerum copia apportabatur.pp. (1-3): Abraham Ortelius, De Ophira regione (in Thesaro Geographico).p. (4): Idem, 'De Paradiso'.p. (5): Errata.p. (6): 'Nihil obstat' signed by Guiliel. Fabiricius Noviomagus. Good copy.- (Some sl. browning in a few quires). Belg. Typ. 548; Index Aureliensis 131.043; European Americana 600/28; Leclerc 414; Sabin 3596 (Antwerp ed.); Adams C507 (Antwerp ed.); Machiels C85 (Antwerp ed.); not in NUC.
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TEMPESTA, A.
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| Nova raccolta de li Animali piu curiosi del Mondo disegnati et intagliati da Antonio Tempesta .
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Roma, Gio Domenico Rossi, (circa 1600). Oblong-4to (254 x 390 mm). Ornamented engraved title-page and 222 engravings on 111 leaves. New vellum in cloth slipcase. Rare first edition of this attractive suite of stange and exotic animals. Nissen and Schwerdt quote a later edition of 1650. Antonio Tempesta (1555 Florence - 5.8.1630 Rome) was a student of Jan van der Straat (Stradanus). He was a painter and engraver, and became known for his series of engravings on hunting scenes and battles. The plates, with fine and clear impressions show mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and a number of fabulous animals in front of attractive landscapes. One of the engravings shows Dürer's Rhinoceros. Two engravings are printed on one leaf, leaving very large margins. Corner of one leaf repaired without touching engravings and 9 leaves with insignificant marginal worming. Thiébaud p. 881.
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| Costumes from all over the world Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae gentium habitus. Habits de diverses nations de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique. Trachtenbuch: Der furnembsten Nationen und Volcker Kleidungen beijde Manns und Weijbs personen in Europa Asia Africa und America. Joos de Bosscher Excudit.- (IDEM.) Exhibemus hoc libello Romani Pontificis, Episcoporum, Monachorum, aliorumque sacerdotum, quorum aliquid scire potuimus, imagines. Antwerpiae, 3 Augusti 1581. Joos de Bosscher excudebat.
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(Antwerp, ca. 1600). . Two parts in one volume. Oblong large folio. Later half red morocco. Richly engraved allegorical title with the emblematic figures of the four continents at the four corners; fine engraved allegorical frontispiece with the emblematic figures of Temperantia, Superbia and Magnanimitas at the top; two engraved portraits, of Esther and Isabelle, printed on one leaf, hundreds of costumes of lay people of the world, both men and women and often accompanied by children, on 61 full-page engraved leaves in the first part; engraved title in Latin, French and Dutch, and numerous costumes of high clergy and religious orders on 18 full-page engraved plates in the second part. 83 lvs. . Beautiful print-series of sixteenth century costumes designed by Abraham de Bruyn, numbered 1 to 58 with number 28 used four times, with the additional second series numbered separately from 1 to 18, together showing over 450 different costumes. An engraved text-leaf in three languages, Latin, French and Dutch, preceeds the second series. The series had first been published on a smaller scale at Cologne in 1577, containing only 50 plates, based on various earlier books of costume. The Antwerp editions of 1581 were quite different, with only some plates from the 1577 edition used again, and enlarged to 79 plates apart from the title, frontispiece and the two portraits. Three variants were published, the first with a Latin title and 'cura Abrah. de Bruin, 1581', the second with Latin and French title, 'Abraham de Bruyn excudit, Michel Colijn ex., 1581' and ours with the title in three languages: Latin, French and German, 'Joos de Bosscher excudit', the second title being dated August 3, 1581. Although Colas dates this ed. 'ca. 1610', we don't see any reason not to date our edition in the 16th century. Vinet counts 84 plates, as the two portraits were printed from separate copper-plates. The first print-series starts with the rich and elaborate costumes of the Emperor and the King of the Holy Roman Empire, followed by the costumes of the Electors. The costumes of the ladies of Augsburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Dantzig etc., are still shown with four to one plate, but the ladies of lesser German towns are then depicted in two rows of five or six above each other, while also the army costumes are shown with twelve or more to one plate. Apart from Europe, including costumes of Antwerp, Brabant, Spain, England, France, Italy with Venice, Rome and Naples, numerous costumes are depicted of the Turks, the Arab and African people, of Persia and Tartary, etc. The second series starts with the papal costume and the costumes of the cardinals and bishops, etc., and the costumes of the religious orders also include that of the Spanish 'flagellants'. Fine copy. Colas 475; Vinet 2087; cf. Lipperheide 12; not in Bibl. Belg., Belg. Typogr., nor in STC Dutch.
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TEMPESTA, A.
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| Nova raccolta de li Animali piu curiosi del Mondo disegnati et intagliati da Antonio Tempesta .
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Roma, Gio Domenico Rossi, (circa 1600). Oblong-4to (254 x 390 mm). Ornamented engraved title-page and 222 engravings on 111 leaves. New vellum in cloth slipcase. Rare first edition of this attractive suite of stange and exotic animals. Nissen and Schwerdt quote a later edition of 1650. Antonio Tempesta (1555 Florence - 5.8.1630 Rome) was a student of Jan van der Straat (Stradanus). He was a painter and engraver, and became known for his series of engravings on hunting scenes and battles. The plates, with fine and clear impressions show mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and a number of fabulous animals in front of attractive landscapes. One of the engravings shows Dürer's Rhinoceros. Two engravings are printed on one leaf, leaving very large margins. Corner of one leaf repaired without touching engravings and 9 leaves with insignificant marginal worming. Thiébaud p. 881.
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| Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae gentium habitus. Habits de diverses nations de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique. Trachtenbuch: Der furnembsten Nationen und Volcker Kleidungen beijde Manns und Weijbs personen in Europa Asia Africa und America. Joos de Bosscher Excudit.- (IDEM.) Exhibemus hoc libello Romani Pontificis, Episcoporum, Monachorum, aliorumque sacerdotum, quorum aliquid scire potuimus, imagines. Antwerpiae, 3 Augusti 1581. Joos de Bosscher excudebat.
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Costumes from all over the world (Antwerp, ca. 1600). Two parts in one volume. Oblong large folio. Later half red morocco. Richly engraved allegorical title with the emblematic figures of the four continents at the four corners; fine engraved allegorical frontispiece with the emblematic figures of Temperantia, Superbia and Magnanimitas at the top; two engraved portraits, of Esther and Isabelle, printed on one leaf, hundreds of costumes of lay people of the world, both men and women and often accompanied by children, on 61 full-page engraved leaves in the first part; engraved title in Latin, French and Dutch, and numerous costumes of high clergy and religious orders on 18 full-page engraved plates in the second part. 83 lvs. Beautiful print-series of sixteenth century costumes designed by Abraham de Bruyn, numbered 1 to 58 with number 28 used four times, with the additional second series numbered separately from 1 to 18, together showing over 450 different costumes. An engraved text-leaf in three languages, Latin, French and Dutch, preceeds the second series. The series had first been published on a smaller scale at Cologne in 1577, containing only 50 plates, based on various earlier books of costume. The Antwerp editions of 1581 were quite different, with only some plates from the 1577 edition used again, and enlarged to 79 plates apart from the title, frontispiece and the two portraits. Three variants were published, the first with a Latin title and 'cura Abrah. de Bruin, 1581', the second with Latin and French title, `Abraham de Bruyn excudit, Michel Colijn ex., 1581' and ours with the title in three languages: Latin, French and German, `Joos de Bosscher excudit', the second title being dated August 3, 1581. Although Colas dates this ed. `ca. 1610', we don't see any reason not to date our edition in the 16th century. Vinet counts 84 plates, as the two portraits were printed from separate copper-plates. The first print-series starts with the rich and elaborate costumes of the Emperor and the King of the Holy Roman Empire, followed by the costumes of the Electors. The costumes of the ladies of Augsburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Dantzig etc., are still shown with four to one plate, but the ladies of lesser German towns are then depicted in two rows of five or six above each other, while also the army costumes are shown with twelve or more to one plate. Apart from Europe, including costumes of Antwerp, Brabant, Spain, England, France, Italy with Venice, Rome and Naples, numerous costumes are depicted of the Turks, the Arab and African people, of Persia and Tartary, etc. The second series starts with the papal costume and the costumes of the cardinals and bishops, etc., and the costumes of the religious orders also include that of the Spanish 'flagellants'. Fine copy. Colas 475; Vinet 2087; cf. Lipperheide 12; not in Bibl. Belg., Belg. Typogr., nor in STC Dutch.
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BRUYN, Abraham de).
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| Costumes from all over the world Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae gentium habitus. Habits de diverses nations de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique. Trachtenbuch: Der furnembsten Nationen und Volcker Kleidungen beijde Manns und Weijbs personen in Europa Asia Africa und America. Joos de Bosscher Excudit.- (IDEM.) Exhibemus hoc libello Romani Pontificis, Episcoporum, Monachorum, aliorumque sacerdotum, quorum aliquid scire potuimus, imagines. Antwerpiae, 3 Augusti 1581. Joos de Bosscher excudebat.
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